Thursday, August 26, 1976
Nyssu Culo City lour nul. f ly
Page Nine
County
Agent
Haburchak's Work In Africa
Helps Villagers And Himself
In work at Squaw Butte
Experiment Station with fall
calving cows one of the
practices considered a must
was to creep feed those fall
calves because that mother
cow just won't prodace the
milk to keep that calf gaining
as it should. Also, it is
cheaper to feed the calf direct
than it is to feed the co*
enough additional feed to
allow her to give more milk
By Alan Abbey
Victor Haburchak eat in
front of the grass hut. The
hard clay ground around him
was swept clean. The little
Malawi village was quiet.
The man who had brought
him there to teach him the
Malawi language had told
him to sit and watch the
nearby banana grove.
■ It was like watching TV or
fishing. Haburchak said.
There was nothing to do and
there was nothing to worry
about because nothing was
going to happen anyway. It
was then that he learned to
live with himself. "A lot of us
are running away from
ourselves," he said.
How did someone from
Nyssa get to southern Africa?
After he graduated from
Nyssa High School in 1966.
Haburchak wanted to go into
some sort of service to the
"church and the community"
and joined the Jesuit com­
munity in Sheridan. Oregon
He spent over two years
there At times he worked as
an orderly in skid row
hospitals or in geriatric
wards. At other times he
went on JO-day retreats. The
Jesuits call them "spiritual
exercises of St. Ignatius."
During these retreats he
spoke to as few people as
possible and tried to work on
how he related to his religion.
"We tried not to be intro­
spective." he said. To keep
on the right track he
consulted with the director
every day and broke his
silence once a week, when failure finally prompted cha­
"we'd all let loose.”
nges. Haburchak reflected on
After that he went to the his own failures and precon­
Union Collage of Theology in ceptions. He originally went
Berkley. Calif., and then to over to try "to apply film to
Africa to work on an villages." His original propo­
ecumenical film team in sition didn't work and he
Zambia. There, he produced switched to a simpler pro­
films on David Livingstone, gram to help villagers "dis­
and credit unions.
cover their own needs." With
He readily admitted the a >20,000 budget he could
failure of their first film on make one film, but with the
Livingstone. Western film same money he "outfitted a
techniques just didn't work in number of people with
Africa. While Americans are Instamatics and trained their,
familiar with film practices, how to make slide shows" on
such as dissolves, fade outs sanitation, agriculture
and the like, African villagers other areas.
just could not comprehend
Finally, some projects
them. Haburchak related a ceeded. He felt he
story to explain his point. A "communicating something
film team put together a slide they can use." Being some­
show on how to keep insects one who makes slides Is not
away from latrine areas. quite as high-status as being
They went through their a "film-maker," but Habur­
whole show and afterwards a chak said he'd rather be
man walked up to them and useful than important sound­
said, "We don't have that ing.
problem, because the insects
Togain more experience in
around my village are not as this field for his return to
big as the ones on the Africa, he spent part of this
screen." Haburchak lau­ summer at the Coady Inter­
ghed as he told the story but national Institute in Anti-
was not making fun of gonish, Nova Scotia. It is a
ignorant villagers. Their up­ small training school for
bringing and history has not persons who want to work in
prepared them for Western and develop the "Third
audiovisual techniques and
World." which includes Af­
their ways of perceiving the rica.
world are different.
This fall he is going back to
Victor said problems like
Berkeley to the Jesuit School
that have cropped up again
of Theology for his Master of
and again as Europeans and
Divinity degree. During this
Americans have tried to
time he will work with the
"modernise" and develop
problem of whether to go into
Africa.
the priesthood. "I have to
On their second Living­ figure out and clarify my
stone film, which was much
call."
more successful, Habur­
He will then go back to
chak's crew slowed up the
Africa. "I love Africa.” he
action and employed local
said. “It is an alive culture.
people on the scriptwriting.
People have a meaningful
He was also very excited
faith in their own life. The
about the African credit
West has fragmented and
union movement. It ia provid­ compartmentalised every­
ing loans and money for
thing—the spiritual side of
people without access to
life, medical side, political
large banks.
side. In Africa they have a
The credit union program
vision of the whole person. I
is just one of the spearheads
got it myself when I was
of an entirely new thrust in
there.
I have learned as
African development. The
much as I have taught."
older ideas basically tried to
However. Africa is one of
undercut the existing culture
the world's biggest trouble
and graft on an European
spots. Angola. South Africa
way of life. Failure after
and Rhodesia are in the
Attention Onion Growers:
A 30 40 minutes slide
presentation of the New York
and Michigan onion crop will
be shown on August 31, at
Vip's Cafe for all interested
growers. The program will
start at 8 p.m. and members
of the delegation will be there
to answer any questions you
may have about the crop. I
hope that the interested
growers of the area can
attend the meeting.
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NEWELL HEIGHTS ■ Mr
and Mrs. Alfred Simpson and
Marion York went to Portland
last Wednesday The men
went salmon fishing and got
their limits. They also visited
relatives in Gresham.
Mr. and Mrs. Ray Simpson
spent ten days visiting. In
Gresham they visited the
Raymond Simpsons and visi­
ted Mr. and Mrs. Bill Holdt
and family in Cammis. Wash.
headlines every day. Victor
has a few friends who are
Rhodesian. He spoke of one
whose father had been
imprisoned for 15 years for
advocating the people's right
to vote.
Victor is in town for a while
and is visiting with his
family. Mr. and Mrs Vic
Haburchak and his sister
Kathy.
They recentlv moved into a
new home. Terry Strong
accompanied Mr. and Mrs.
Ray Simpson Mrs. Simpson
got three gallons of black
berries to bring home.
Mrs. Hugh Eddy and
children of Caldwell came
Thursday and are visiting her
parents. Mr. and Mrs. R. D.
McKinley.
Mr. and Mrs. Wilford
Honsbick and family of Salt
Lake City. Utah came Satur­
day and are visiting in the
Eugene Pratt home.
Sunday dinner guests in
the Eugene Pratt home
besides their house guests
were Mr. and Mrs. John
Kirby and family. Carolyn
Pratt and Burdette Pratt and
family.
Michael Pratt now has his
business degree from Port­
land State.
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Saturdav luncheon guest of
Other were Mrs. Tina Schie­
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Ruth Draper.
Mrs. Tunis Garner and
Tommy and Jinny Danielson
of Homedale were Sunday
dinner guests of her parents.
Mr. and Mrs. Leon Chamber-
lain.
Mr. and Mrs. Leon Cham­
berlain visited in the Tunis
Garner home in Homedale
Friday evening.
Mr. and Mrs. Leon Cham­
berlain went to the Fair in
Ontario Thursday.
Mr. and Mrs. Greg Topliff
and son Kelly of Boise came
Saturday and spent the
weekend with his parents.
Mr. and Mrs. Irvin Topliff.
Mr. and Mrs. Irvin Topliff
were among those who
attended the open house for
Mr and Mrs. Stanley Hill
in Adrian Sunday afternoon.
and Mrs R. D. McKinley.
Mr. and Mrs. John Fahren-
bruch. George Schiemer. Mr.
and Mrs. Gerritt Timmerman
Darryl and Linda Simpson
and son Ryan were Sunday
dinner guests of his parents.
Mr. and Mrs. Gene Simpson.
Mr. and Mrs. Bernard
Hinrichs and daughter Nancy
of Bruning, Nebraska visited
their former neighbors. Mr.
and Mrs. Leonard Schutte.
Thursday.
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Bege-
man were Friday afternoon
visitors of Mrs. Dale Witt and
her sister. Mrs. Rhea Perci­
val.
Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Van
DeWater and son Kent of
Caldwell were Sunday dinner
guests of Mrs. Dale Witt and
Mrs. Rhea Percival. Mrs.
Percival accompanied them
home after dinner and they
took her to Boise where she
left in a plane for Denver,
then got a plane for Wichita.
Kansas.
Mr. and Mrs. Phillip
Cansler of Topeka. Kansas
were last Sunday overnight
guests of her aunt and uncle.
Mr. and Mrs. LeRoy Sprague.
They were on their way to
Eugene. Oregon where they
will enter college and both
work for their masters
degree.
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth
Fenn and family of Kent,
Washington and a boy from
Alaska spent ten days here
visiting his mother. Mrs
Carl Fenn and other relatives
They returned home last
Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Dick Kriegh
returned Sunday evening
from a trip to Washington
They visited his sister, Mr.
and Mrs. Wayne Eh res man
at Chehalis. Washington and
her brother Melvin Stewart,
who had just got out of the
hospital. They went on to
Tagard where they visited
friends.
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Lee Hill
and Terri visited Mr. and
Mrs. Jim Phifer Tuesday
evening.
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